Search Result for "addled":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. (of eggs) no longer edible;
- Example: "an addled egg"
2. confused and vague; used especially of thinking;
- Example: "muddleheaded ideas"
- Example: "your addled little brain"
- Example: "woolly thinking"
- Example: "woolly-headed ideas"
[syn: addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Addle \Ad"dle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Addled; p. pr. & vb. n. Addling.] To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." --Cowper. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "addled": addlebrained, addleheaded, addlepated, at a loss, baffled, bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted, blear-witted, blind drunk, buffaloed, cloudy, confounded, crapulent, crapulous, dazed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, far-gone, floored, flustered, fogged, foggy, fou, fuddlebrained, fuddled, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, hazy, in a dilemma, in a fog, in a muddle, in liquor, in suspense, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, licked, maudlin, mellow, merry, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy, mystified, nappy, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled, puzzleheaded, reeling, scramblebrained, shikker, sodden, sotted, stuck, stumped, thrown, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence
